The playing adult steps
The playing adult steps sideward into another reality; the playing child advances forward to new stages of mastery. Erik Erikson
Children Playing
You see a child
You see a child play, and it is so close to seeing an artist paint, for in play a child says things without uttering a word. You can see how he solves his problems. You can also see what’s wrong. Young children, especially, have enormous creativity, and whatever’s in them rises to the surface in … Read more
Puzzles are made of
Puzzles are made of the things that the mathematician, no less than the child, plays with, and dreams and wonders about, for they are made of things and circumstances of the world he [or she] live in. Edward Kasner
There is much good
There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line. E. M. Forster
Deep meaning lies often
Deep meaning lies often in childish play. Friedrich Schiller
I speak and the
I speak and the child plays: who can be more serious than we are? Friedrich Nietzsche
Men should learn to
Men should learn to live with the same seriousness with which children play. Friedrich Nietzsche
In every real man
In every real man a child is hidden that wants to play. Friedrich Nietzsche
It is easier to
It is easier to build strong children than to repair broken men. Frederick Douglass
For children, play is
For children, play is exceedingly seriously & important Fred Rogers